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So, it's gonna get MickeySoft (that's a Wolf in Mickey make-up, run children, run). As, one Slashdot commenter put it, "This is like McDonalds bullying and lobbying to make the BigMac the preferred choice for UN's world food programme, and succeeding."

Give a read to Ivan KrstiÄ's remarkably insightful and properly angry account.

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